[Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/6] xen-mfndump and some libxc cleanups

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I submitted some of the patches in this series before, as a part of the first
RFC of the NUMA memory migration feature. While preparing another round of it,
I thought there is enough 'meat' already for a separate series.

Basically, there are a few places in libxc where we issue do_domctl()-s
directly, instead of using the proper xc_xxx() wrapper. This make the code
bigger, redundant, more difficult to understand (e.g., "why xc_xxx() is called
here and is not called there?"), less consistent and less grep-able. The first
4 patches of this series address this.

The last one introduce a little tool I'm using for debugging. It allows one to
see the M2P of the host, the P2M of a domain, some info about the PTEs, and
perform basic searches and comparisons on them. I'm finding it very useful and,
although I do not claim for my situation to be that common, I figured it could
be nice to have it in the tree, so that is patch 6. Patch 5 is the small
rework/additions necessary to make 6 possible.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks and Regards,
Dario

---

Dario Faggioli (6):
      libxc: introduce xc_domain_get_address_size
      libxc: use xc_vcpu_setcontext() instead of calling do_domctl()
      libxc: use xc_vcpu_getinfo() instead of calling do_domctl()
      libxc: allow for ctxt to be NULL in xc_vcpu_setcontext
      libxc: introduce xc_map_domain_meminfo (and xc_unmap_domain_meminfo)
      tools/misc: introduce xen-mfndump.


 tools/libxc/xc_core.c           |   21 --
 tools/libxc/xc_cpuid_x86.c      |    8 -
 tools/libxc/xc_dom_boot.c       |   28 +--
 tools/libxc/xc_domain.c         |  149 +++++++++++++-
 tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c |   13 -
 tools/libxc/xc_offline_page.c   |  192 +++---------------
 tools/libxc/xc_pagetab.c        |    8 -
 tools/libxc/xc_private.c        |    8 -
 tools/libxc/xc_resume.c         |   23 +-
 tools/libxc/xenctrl.h           |   12 +
 tools/libxc/xenguest.h          |   17 ++
 tools/libxc/xg_private.h        |    9 +
 tools/libxc/xg_save_restore.h   |    9 -
 tools/misc/Makefile             |    7 -
 tools/misc/xen-mfndump.c        |  425 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/xentrace/xenctx.c         |    9 -
 16 files changed, 677 insertions(+), 261 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/misc/xen-mfndump.c

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Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli
Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)

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